false 20404 3 1 Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. ]]> male Boston, Massachusetts 1838/02/16 1918/03/27 82896 1406802786 9781406802788 55 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171032172m/82896.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82896.The_Education_of_Henry_Adams 3.60 223 20404 3.76 536 114 761531 0140390545 9780140390544 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178131138m/761531.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/761531.Mont_Saint_Michel_and_Chartres 4.12 43 Henry Adams' record of his journeys through France, searching for images of unity in an age of conflict, is accompanied by observations on literature, politics, religion, and major church leaders such as Abelard, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Thomas Aquinas.

]]> 20404 3.76 536 114 341726 1406802778 9781406802771 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173894962m/341726.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341726.Democracy_An_American_Novel 3.42 45 20404 3.76 536 114 341725 0940450127 9780940450127 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173894961m/341725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341725.Henry_Adams_Democracy_Esther_Mont_Saint_Michel_and_Chartres_The_Education_of_Henry_Adams 4.44 25 20404 3.76 536 114 157743 0940450348 9780940450349 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172267373m/157743.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157743.History_of_the_United_States_of_America_During_the_Administrations_of_Thomas_Jefferson 4.36 25 20404 3.76 536 114 1303825 0140447547 9780140447545 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182624031m/1303825.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1303825.Esther 3.58 12 20404 3.76 536 114 360349 3.64 14 1 362531 0940450356 9780940450356 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174105883m/362531.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/362531.History_of_the_United_States_During_the_Administrations_of_James_Madison 4.29 7 20404 3.76 536 114 3691353 0877541868 9780877541868 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3691353.John_Randolph 5.00 1 20404 3.76 536 114 686227 1590172159 9781590172155 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177189918m/686227.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/686227.The_Jeffersonian_Transformation_Passages_From_The_History_ 5.00 1 A New York Review Books Original

The ideal introduction and companion to Adams’s "massive and magisterial" history of the administrations of Jefferson and Madison, presenting an indelible picture of America’s startling rise to world power.

Henry Adams’s nine-volume History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison is the first great history of America as well as the first great American work of history, one that rivals Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in its eloquence and sweep. But where Gibbon told of imperial collapse, Adams recorded the rise of an unprecedented new power, America, which, he shows, beat nearly inconceivable odds to expand in a mere seventeen years —1800 to 1817—from a backward provincial outpost to an imperial power. What made this transformation all the more unexpected was that it occurred under the watch of two presidents who were in principle dead set against it, but whose policies promoted it energetically. A masterpiece not only of research and analysis but of style and art, Adams’s history is a splendid coming-of-age story, with romantic and even comic overtones, recording a young nation’s amazed awakening to its own unsuspected promise.

The Jeffersonian Transformation presents a new selection from Adams’s History, the first to bring together in one volume the opening and closing sections of the work, with an introduction by the historian and political commentator Garry Wills. The two sections of Adams’s History included here present a bold picture of America before and after the Jeffersonian transformation. Together they define the scope and argument of the History as a whole, while raising still-provocative questions about the relationship between American democracy and American empire.]]> 20404 3.76 536 114 307929 052126118X 9780521261180 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1217225304m/307929.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/307929.Novels_Mont_Saint_Michel_The_education 5.00 1 20404 3.76 536 114